Sailors designate Rowdy Telz for the mission

The navy appointed the first basic player Rowdy Telz For assignment, according to a team ad. Its place on the list will go to aerobatic / first goal player Luke Raleywhich was activated from the injured list after missing seven weeks with oblique tension.

Like, 30 years old, is in his eighth season in the big league and jumped 11 circuits while being the first first goal player in Seattle. At the beginning of the year, he had to see more time in the shot chosen for the skipper Dan Wilson, but the injury to Raley and the problems of injury in progress for the inner field JORGE POLANCO (which was therefore relegated to work DH) regularly pushed such as in the field.

After a disastrous start of his season, Telz rectified the ship in mid-April and was a useful source of power but imperfect at the heart of the order of sailors. He reached the base only once during his first 23 plate appearances, but has since failed 11 circuits and struck 0.484. However, this power is delivered with an average average and an OPP at the bottom of the barrel. This is rarely walking, is easy to position against defensively because of its extreme-pad approach and is measured by Statcast as the slowest player in baseball (eliminating almost every chance that it reaches via the inner blow).

Dating from April 11, Telz took 162 laps in the plate and strikes .229 / .265 / .484. It was protected almost entirely from the left -handed pitch, receiving only 14 appearances of plates and reaching the base only twice (one, one blow per blow). It strikes .219 / .257 / .463 against right -handed pitch this year.

With Raley approaching a return, it seemed likely that such or his other veteran of the first basic option Donovan Solano could be pushed back from the list. Since Telz and Raley struck the left -handers, the navies have chosen to leave the veteran who can keep an intact peloton. Solano helped his cause by hitting better in the last month, although in an excessively limited role. He beat .333 / .394 / .467 since May 20, but he did it in just 33 plaques appearances (26 of them against left -handers).

For the moment, Solano and Raley will probably be from the peloton to the first goal. It is not an ideal configuration, because Raley is more comfortable in the outside field than at the beginning and Solano experienced difficulties this season overall. The navies will explore, at the very least, the commercial market of swing options on the right at the first goal in the coming weeks. Sunday song provided a slightly better infraction than the average in the right field since it was called earlier this month (.233 / .303 / .400 in 33 appearances on plates), but if it fights as it did in two earlier MLB seasons, sailors could move Raley on the right ground. This would set them up to give prospects Tyler Locklear A race for the first basis or explore the commercial market for full -time upgrade at the first base or in the right field.

The navies will have five days to exchange such or place it in derogations. He initially signed a minor league contract with Seattle but locked a salary of $ 1.5 million when he made the list after a great spring performance. It still owes about $ 806,000 of this sum to date.

Any team that claims that Telz would have derogations would assume the entirety of this remaining salary. If the M finds an interested trading partner, they could include money to compensate for the salary in exchange for what would probably be a nominal prospect return. Since derogations are a 48 -hour process, we will know the result of Telz DFA in a maximum of a week. In the event that he erases the derogations, such as enough time to elect the free agency and keep the remaining money on this year’s salary.